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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1890.
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to state the quantity- owuea by untitled
aliens. nor is it o important,
as it is generally huld in smaller
bodies. This alien non-rcsi dent ownership
Trill, in the course of time, lead to a system
of landlordism incompatible with the best
interests and free institutions of the United
States. The foundation of such a system is
being laid broadly in the Western States
and Territories.
"The avarico and enterprise of European
capitalists." the report continues, "have
caused them to invest many millions in
American railroad and land bonds, cover
ing perhaps 100.000.000 acres, the greater
part of which, under foreclosure sales, will
tnost likely before many years become the
property of theso foreign bondholders, in
julilition to their present princely, posses
sions. This aggressive foreign cap
ital is not confined to the lands it has pur
chased, but overleaping its boundaries has
caused hundreds of miles of the public do
main to be fenced up for the grazing of
vast herds of cattle, and set at detlance the
rights of the honest, but humble, settler."
The bill proposes to place these aliens
tinder the disabilities of the civil law as to
all future attempts io acquire lands in this
country. "In other words," the report
says, "the bill is a declaration against ab
sentee landlordism. It declares allforeign
born persons wno have not been natur
alized incapable of taking the title to lands
anywhere within the United States, except
a leasehold for not exceeding five years,
and it has no retroactive, bnt a prospective
operation. It also contains a provision
which will compel alien land-owners to
cease to be such or to become citizens of
the United States within ten years.
The bill," the report says, "would pre
vent any more abuses like that of Mr.
Scully, who resides in England and is a
subject of the Queen, but owns 00,000 acres
occupied by tenants, mostly ignorant for
eigners, from whom he receives as
rent $200,000 yearly, and expends
it in Europe. The Schenley estate
of about two thousand acres, within the
city limits of Pittsburg and Allegheny,
from the rents of which the Schenleya. who
are subjects of the British Queen, draw an
nually not less than $100,000, is another in
stance of alien landlordism in America.
The tenth census shows that the United
States has 570.000 farmers, the largest num
ber possessed by any nation in the world."
In conclusion, the report says: "With
the natural increase in people, and 600,000
foreigners who Hock to our shores annually,
and who, fry competition, are reducing too
wages of labor, making the battle of life
harder to win, how, a few years hence, to
provide homes for our poor people is a prob
lem for the American statesmen to solve.
The multiplication of the owners of the
soil is a corresponding enlargement of the
number of patriots, and every land-owner
in this country should owe allegiance to
the United States."
MINOR MATTERS.
Effort of the National IJar Association to
Have a Bankruptcy B1U raised.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal..
Washington, Juno 9. There is a dele
gation from the National Bar Association
trying to secure the passage ; of the bank
ruptcy bill which has been pending since
the beginning of the session. They visited
the members of the. committee on rules
individually this morning, who all agreed
that a day would be 6et aside for the con
eideration of the bill, and the prospect is
that it will come before the House
within the next week or ten days.
The pending bill is the, result - of
a compromise between the creditor and the
debtor interests and is very generally ap
proved by all the bar associations through
out the country. The Speaker said thathe
was in favor of the bill, and there seems to
be a general demand for it. He thought it
ought to bo passed before the olose of the
session.
Important Land Ruling.
Washington, June 9. The Secretary of
the Interior to-day rendered an important
decision on the question of the legality of
the President's action in issuing. May 23,
16T0, a proclamation offering certain lands
in New Mexico for sale at publio auction.
In pursuance of this proclamation tho said
lands, in August following, were offered aa
stated, and those of them remaining undis
posed of were treated as subject to private
cash entry under the act of Atril 24, 1820.
In IScQ Commissioner Sparks disputed the
legality of the President's order, and re
cently the p repent Commissioner decided
that the oflerirg under tho President's
Proclamation w&h not authorized by law.
he Secretary overrules the decisions and
concludes that the President's proclama
tion was legal, and that the question must
be accepted as tin ally and legally deter
mined. Famous Cotton Claim Settled.
Washington, Jnne 9. The Court of
Claims to-day settled the famous Austin
cotton claim. This was a claim for about
$CO,000 for cotton seized in Louisiana and
Texas, and rested upon the loyalty of Ster
ling Austin, deceased, father of the claim
ants. It also involved the question of
whether the general amnesty act of 1SCS re
moved his usabilities in caso he was
proved to have been disloyal. The court
decided the latter point in the negative.
The court dismissed the petition on the
ground that tho loyalty of Sterling Austin
had not been established. A supplementa
ry opinion was, however, given fixing the
value of the property seized at $59,2S7.
air. McKae's SlUer-Colnage Dill.
Washington, June 9. Representative
McKae of Arkansas to-day introduced in
the House a bill on the subject of silver
coinage. It provides for the free coinage
of silver; for an increase of United States
treasury notes each year, to make the total
issue thereof equal in amonnt to the rev
enues of the government for that year; for
the issue of treasury notes to replace na
tional bank notes surrendered; for the re
eal of the laws authorizing the sale of
Jnited States bonds, and for the accumu
; ation of the gold reserve of $100,000,000. and,
inally, for the covennc of the reserve into
the treasury as an available asset.
Working for .Safer 11a 11 it ay Appliances.
Special to the In&lanapolla Journal.
Washington, June 9. The Brotherhood
of Railway Brakomen is now at work on
tho House committee on railways and ca
nals as it has been on the Senate committee
on interstate commerce, and will probably
secure a favorable report on the bill re
quiring railway companies to use safety ap
pliances for coupling and brakes on freight
cars. The committee it not disposed to go
as far as Mr. Collin, the agent of the broth
erhood, desires, but they will report some
kind of a bin.
May Keport the Tariff Bill This WmL
Washington. June 9. The Senate com
mittee on finance to-day continued the
consideration of the tariff bill. The cotton
sohedule was concluded. Few - changes
were made. The committee has now nearly
completed the bill, and a member stated
to-day that the majority members would
probably conclude their work on the bill
to-morrow night. The report on the bill
trill probably not be made until the latter
part of this week or the hrst part of the
week to come.
Tlppranoe Battle-Field Slonament.
Washington, June 9. Representative
O'Neil, of Pennsylvania, to-day reported
favorably to the House from the library
committee the bill appropriating SoO.OOO for
erection of a monument on the battle-held
of Tippecanoe, Indiana, to commemorate the
heroism of men who fought and died under
Gen. William II. Harrison.
General Notes.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, June 9. The Comptroller
of the Currency has approved tho selection
of the American Exchange National Bank,
of New York, and the First National Bank,
of Cincinnati, as reserve agents for the old
National Bank, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
General Schofield, who is acting as Secre
tary of War. has received information
from General Buger to the etlect that the
trouble on the Rosebud, between the set
tlers and the Cheyennes, teems to bavo
subsided. The Indians have agreed to sur
render the prisoners demanded by the au
thorities. The President and family Tetorned to
Washington on the United States steamer
Despatch, at noon, from Fortress Monroe.
Va.
The Republican congressional campaign
committee will open rooms to-morrow at
uo, 13 Madison place opposite Lafayette
square. The location . is between the
White nonse and Arlington Hotel, adjoin
ing the residences of Secretary Blaine ana
Senator Don Cameron.
James G. Brooks', ex-chief of the secret
service division of the Treasury Depart
ment, was to-day placed in charge of the
division in place of acting Chief Cowie.
It is understood that the position will not
be permanently tilled before July 1. The
Knights of Labor are very friendly to ex
Chief Brooks, and will, it is said, support
him for Conpress in a New Jersey district.
Secretary Windoni has made a favorable
report on tho customs administrative bill,
and it will probably be approved by the
President to-morrow.
A pleasure excursion party, consisting of
about eighty-five members of the Minne
sota Editors' and Publishers' Association,
many of whom are accompanied by the
ladies of their families and invited friends,
arrived here this evening.
BRUTAL PRIZE FIGHT.
Encounter Between TimOTJern and Barney
Taylor, at Omaha, Stopped by the Police.
Omaha, Neb.,; June 9. The bloodiest
prize-light that has overtaken place in this
vicinity came off Saturday night between
Tim O'Hern, of Chicago, and Barney Tay
lor, of South Omaha. O'Hern stripped at
170 pounds, and Taylor at 1C6. In the first
round tho Chicago man rushed Taylor
around the ring, getting in heavy blows
wherever he desired. When the second
round opened. Taylor started in for re
venge. Both men were severely punished,
and iust as the round closed. O'Hern land
ed viciously on Taylor's jaw, sending him
to the floor in a semi-conscious condition.
A terrible right-hander in the third laid
Taylor cheek open, and in the fourth
O'Hern got in a savage upper-cut. Taylor
landed heavily on O'Hern's neck, and the
latter went down as the round closed. Tho
fifth round was tame, but in the sixth and
seventh Taylor scored two knock-downs.
In the eighth O'Hern split Taylor's other
cheek, and closed one eye. The Chicago
man also had the best of the ninth, and
when Taylor came up for the tenth both
eyes were abont closed, and his face and
chest were swathed in blood. Each man
secured a knock down in this round, but
for the next live rounds O'Hern had every
thing his own way. When the sixteenth
ronnd opened O'Hern started in to knock
out his man. His first smash sent Taylor
sprawling on his back. Again and again
O'Hern smashed the bleeding, trembling,
staggering man, and ho was fast succumb
ing when Chief of Police Maloney jumped
through the ropes and stopped the tight.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Mayor Davidson assured the Baltimore
City Council yesterday that they had had
the benefit of "indirect competition" in the
sale of tho city's B. & O. stock.
The Boston Wool-consumers' Associa
tion will soon issue a circular to all persons
in the wool trade, asking them to join in a
crusade against the wool tariff.
Preston and William Eaton, brothers,
while returning home from Superior, Nob.,
Sunday, were struck by a train on the Bur
lington & Missouri Hiver road,near Hardy,
and instantly killed.
A French Canadian, Edmund Corrivean,
a farm laborer, of Harrisville, K. I., died
yesterday afternoon, at Bellevue Hospital,
New York, of exhaustion following the
paroxysms of hydrophobia.
Owen Bradley, a well-known race-horse-trainer,
shot and mortally wounded Price
Jenkins at Lexington, Ky., yesterday.
Jenkins had a fight with Bradley's brother
Will, Sunday night, and yesterday morning
Owen took it up. He escaped after tho
shooting.
By unanimous vote the City Council of
Chicago has petitioned Governor Fifer to
call an extra session of the State Legisla
ture to consider a constitutional amend
ment permitting the city of Chicago's
bonded indebtedness to be increased $5,000,
000. The Bum named is for the purpose of
promoting tho success of the world's fair.
Lower California Conspirators.
San Francisco, June 9. A dispatch to
the Chronicle from Ensenada. Lower Cali
fornia, gives an interview with Governor
Torres, Governor of the peninsula. Got.
Torres says he has been in constant cipher
communication with the Mexican govern
ment since the iilibustenng disclosures
were made, and has sent a full report sub
stantiating all that has been published.
He 6tys the Mexican government has de
cided to demand that the United States
Iiumsh Walter G. Smith, Augustus Morrell,
Canfo D. Wordon, Gideon Hill and others
for their part in the conspiracy. Torres
will soon send his government proofs that
an English corporation was undoubtedly
guilty of complicity.
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Shot by His Rival In Love.
Kansas City, Mo.. Juno 9. Benjamin F.
Knight, deputy county marshal of this,
Jackson county, was shot and fatally
wounded last night, abont eight miles south
of here, while returning home from visiting
his fiancee, Miss Mary Foree. Wm. Scrog
giu, Miss Foreo's cousin, was arrested for
the crime and later made a confession. He
said Knight was jealous of his attentions to
Miss Forte and had threatened to kill him.
Fearing that Knight would execute the
threat he, Scroggins. laid in ambush for
his rival and shot him.
Tleads Broken In a Circa Klot.
Bangor, Me.. June 9. Quite a riot was
reported to-night from Ellsworth, where
some men of the place became involved in
a bloody fight vfith somo employes
of Robbins's circus. A large num
ber participated in the fight, which
resulted in many broken heads and
severe bruises. After a desperate struggle
partial order was finally restored. It is re
ported that a special police force patrolled
tho streets armed with rides. Great excite
ment is reported in the city. Several men
wero severely injured.
Gone to Canada to Escape Creditors.
Haverhill, Mass.. Juno 9. Fred W.
Blake, dealer in patent leather tips, left
town a week ago, saying he was going to
Chicago on business. It is learned that ho
left a number of creditors; that his prop
erty is over-mortgaged, and that ho owes
employes two weeks' salary. His wife has
left town, and it is believed that the couple
are in Canada.
A Horse Plunges Through a Street Car.
Fall River, Mass., Juno 9. A runaway
horse attached to a grocery wagon plunged
through an open street car this morning.
There were twenty persons in the car.
Miss Jennie Burke was hurled twenty feet
and injured internally, George Pascoud
was seriously injured, and Mrs. Kioo slight
ly bruised. The rest escaped unhurt.
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Broker Pell Sentenced.
New York, June 9. Recorder Smythe. of
the General Sessions Court, this morning
sentenced broker George H. Pell, of Sixth
National Bank-wrecking fame, to imprison
ment, at hard labor, for seven years and
six months in the State prison.
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Willie Leapheart's Lynchers Indicted.
Columbia. S. C, June 9. The Lexington
grand jury to-day Drought in a true bill
against F. C. Canghman and Pierce G. Tay.
lor for the lynching of Willie Leapheart In
jail last month.
A Suggestion Not Yet Adopted.
Kansas City JonrnaL
The suggestion made by the Indianapolis
Journal that the custom of floating dags
oyer the public schools be adopted in the
Southern States meets with favor in the
North. As yet there has been no hearty re
sponse from the South. And still the
Southern editors are continually exaptiat
ingupon the loyalty of the Southern peo
ple to the Hag of the Union. '
What We At After.
Philadelphia Press.
The objection which tho importers raise
against the McKinley bill is that "it would
chc!k importations. " That means, of course,
that moro goods would have to be manu
factured in this country! Well, brethren,
that's just what the McKinley bill is here
for, bless your dear soul!
Hare No Sympathy with Inrestlatlons.
tferhe iter Democrat.
The Democratic Assembly of New Jersey
has refused to approve the bill of costs in
curred in investigating the Hudson county
election frauds. This is characteristic of a
party which has ever been ranged in oppo
sition to reform of any kind.
THE AFKICAli SLAVETEAFPIO
Instead of Suppressing It Europeans Aro
Indirectly Aiding and Abetting.
Starvation Along' the Ki?er Sile Cruelty to
Natives Women Not Wanted in Office
Ton Caprhi, Bismarck and Kalnoky.
SLAVERY ENCOURAGED.
Nothing Being Done by Europeans to Sop
press the Traffic In Africa.
London, June 9. The European powers
do not seem to be making much progress in
their professed object of suppressing the
slave trade, which is made the pretext for
seizing and apportioning Africa. The Bed
sea trade in kidnaping children continues
to flourish without any attempt beingmade
for its suppression. Several thousand of
these children are kidnaped from Africa
every year and disposed of at various places
along the Red sea, where they are subjected
to terrible treatment. The fact that there
is no fertile territory to be seized under the
pretext of stopping the cruel trade in inno
cent and helpless humanity probably ac
counts for the circumstances that England
does not spare any of her immense fleet for
that object, although the British station at
Aden is very near the track of the slavers.
So far from suppressing slavery on the east
coast and along the Congo, the system is
rather encouraged by the compensation
paid to slave-owners for the labor of their
human chattels, and the anxieties of the
various European invaders of the Dark
Continent to realize on their investments
has made the traffic in slaves brisker than
before.
The most appalling accounts are received
of the sufferings of the people in upper
Egypt and along the scene or the expedi
tion for the relief of Gordon. It is said
that the inhabitants, driven desperate by
starvation, feed on each other, while all
kinds of animals, however loathsome, are
eagerly sought for food. The wretched
people fight with each other for morsels,
and hundreds ore porishing daily. Failure
of crops is said to cause this awful misery,
though the wars in which British ambition
the territory has prominently figured,
have doubtless had their inllucuce in caus
ing the failure of the crops. Indeed, it is
said that the slaughter of the male popula
tion left the devastated region without suf
ficient male labor to raise tho crops.
It is also asserted that at Sierra Lecne,
and on tne coast generally, the British
officials being practically irresponsible for
their conduct, are most brutal and tyran
nical in their treatment of the natives, who
are flogged and tortured at the will of their
white masters. Meantime England is build
ing a number of gun-boats for the work of
christianizing Africa. Tho boats are of
shallow draft, so as to pass up the rivers
into the interior, and will be mounted with
a sufficient number of cannon to impress
the natives with the advantages of civiliza
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Einln Pasha's Salary Paid.
London, June 9. The Egyptian govern
ment has paid to Captain Casati, in behalf
of Emin Pasha, more than 5,000 as Emin's
salary for soven years services as governor
of the equatorial province in Africa.
Major Wissmann, Imperial German Com
missioner to east Africa, has arrived at
Cairo from Africa on his way to Berlin.
lie reports that Emin Pasha, when, he
started for the interior of Africa, was en
joying lino health. -" . , -T
in the House of Commons to-day Sir
Jaine8Fergusson. Parliamentary Secretary
for tho Foreign Office, announced that the
government had no information that the
Germans were pushing forward agents into
the regions in the rear of the territory of
the British and German East African com
panies. The English and German govern
ments understood that while the negotia
tions relative to African territory were
pending the status quo would be main
tained. , .., . ,Uj
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WOMEN NOT WANTED. J
British Lords Ilefue to Allow Tliem to Serve
as Members of County Councils. -' j
London, June 9. The House of Lords to
day rejected the bill to enable women to
serve as members of county councils.
While from the known consensus of
opinion among the lords on. this subject
their action was not surprising, it was still
thought that the presence of MissCobden
and Miss Conn in the London County
Council by virtue of popular election, and
the additional fact that no protest against
their being seated was lodged within the
year succeeding their election, would ex
ercise greater influence over the obdurate
peers. There is now a resolution before
the House of Commons calling utteaiiou to
the exclusion of women from the parlia
mentary franchise, and practically a mo
tion to allow women, otherwise legally
qualified, to exercise this privilege. Al
though not as ancient nor as time-worn as
the "deceased wife's sister.' bill, this mo
tion comes up rVom time to time, and it is
interesting to note its growing strength as
it returns to its place on the parliamentary
table. Since 1872 women have voted for
members of town councils, and- in the year
intervening me privilege oi, voting lor
school boards, poor law guardians and
other local bodies has been added. The
parliamentary committee also rejected to
day tne "unearned increment" clause in
the bill providing for the widening and
general improvement oi tne etrana.
CArRIVI AND lilSUAIiCK. ,
The Former Admits thati i the Latter Is
Missed in State Councils
Berlin, June D;-ThV committee of tho
Reichstag on the army- bill held another
session to-day. Chancellor Von Caprivi
appeared before the committee and ex
pressed his concurrence in the statement
made by Gen. Verdy du Vernois. Minister
of War, that it would be impossible to rer
duce tho . term of compulsory military
service. The Chancellor alluded to the
resignation of Prince Bismarck, and said
that though his withdrawal from the
chancellorship had rendered the conduct of
business difficult it had made no chancre
whatever in Germany's relations with
other governments. Hcrren Kichter and
Kickert, leaders of the Friesinnige party,
declared that the bill would not be accept
able to their parties unless the term of
service was shortened. The prospect of an
entente between the government and the
opposition on tho bill is therefore remote.
In the course of his remarks the Chan
cellor said the withdrawal of Prince Bis
marck had left affairs, from their nature,
less secure than when his fascinating per
sonality still figured before the world. A
thousand things which were in themselves
unchanged now appear with notes of in
terrogation instead of points of exclamation.
i qnue unaersrana," ne aaaea. "tnt you
should wiah that things had haimened
t otherwise, or that Prince Bismarck ttbonld
P it 1 - A - .
return iiiveiy protests irom an pans oi tne
house. But it was inevitable, sooner or
later. We still find the simplest duties
difficult because his weight does not fall
into the scales. 1 count in the first plat e
upon a patriotic understanding on all sides.
Let us wait another year, then, if neces
sary. I shall be prepared to combat all con
necting elements here. Bnt to-day I still
iace tne iray wun some anxiety."
As Viewed by Count Kalnoky.
Pestii. June 9. Count Kalnoky, Minister
of Foreign Affairs for the wholo monarchy,
addressed the Austrian-Hungarian delega
tions to-day. He declared that, owing to
the sharply-defined individuality of the
hiahly-gifted and energetic Emperor of
Germany, the change in the German
chancellorship had no more effected the
relations of the two empires than the change
of Emperors. These relations were never
clearer, or lirmer. or more intimate than
now. The government saw Caprivi at tho
head of anairs with no less confidence than
when Bismarck was in control. Tho coun
try's relations with other powers were per
fectly satisfactory. The radicalism of
Servia foreshadowed a tension, but Servia
was too weak alone to cause complica
tions. Austria had never failed to remind
Servia tiat it was advisable to cultivate a
friendship with Russia, which need not en
tail hostility toward Austria. Keplying to
questions Count Kalnoky said that no steps
had been taken to conclude international
agreements of an American protectionist
tendency, but the governments interested
had been sounded on the subject. All the
foreign estimates, including an increased
appropriation for the secret service, were
unanimously adopted. '
Bismarck Talks on Nihilists and Workmen.
London, June 10. A correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph has been accorded an in
terview by Prince Bismarck. Tho Prince
declared that no concession to the Nihilists
was possible. Over-education had led to
much dissatisfaction and disappointment
in Germany, but in Russia it had led to dis
affection and conspiracy There were ten
times as many people educated for the
higher walks as there were places to fill.
rurtber. education was making pedantic
theorists and visionaries unlit for consti
tutional government. It wonld be mad
ness to put such men in authority. Rus
sians do not know yet what they want.
They must therefore bo ruled with a rod of
iron. Referring to the labor question, the
Prince ridiculed the idea that workmen
would ever be contented, because, he said,
the rich are never contented. lie ppoke
strongly against any dictation as to hours
of labor and against the usurping of the
rightful authority of parents oyer their
children.
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
The McKinley Tariff Bill Does Not Suit
.British Manufacturers.
London:, June 9. In the House of Com
mons, to-night, Mr. C. E. Howard Vincent,
member for Sheffield, referring to the act
of the American House of Representatives
in increasing the duties on cutlery, tin-
plate, and other articles of British export,
inquired concerning the bad effect which
the approval of the Senate would havo
upon Sheffield, Belfast, and other places m
the British empire. He also asked if the
government still maintains that the free
import system of the United Kingdom pre
cluded its instruction of Sir Julian Pannce
fote, British minister at Washington, to
represent to the American government tha
injury which thependinglegislation would
do to the industry of a friendly power
which last year gave a free market to lft.-
000,000 worth of competing American goods.
bir James rergusson said toe government
had not received a copy of the bill, but bad
A I A 9 .
ueen iniormea mat it contained no impor
tant alterations.
In Memory of John Ilass, Martyr.
London, June 9. The action of Dr.
Reiger, the leader of the old Czechs, and
twenty other members of that party, in
announcing their intention of resigning
their seats in the Bohemian Diet, is duo to
the attitude in that body of the now Czech
1arty, with wnicn Dr. Keiger and nis xoi
owers cannot consistently act. Though
the friction between the two factions has
increased of lato it has had no effect upon
the preparations which have been in prog
ress for some time to hold a grand iluss
celebration in July, in which project all
Czechs are united. AH over Bohemia
organizations are forming to do honor to
ti e memory of John iluss, who was burned
a.' the stake at Constance, on July 16, 1415,
for heresy. It is the intention to make the
demonstration the greatest gathering of
Czechs ever assembled, and seven hundred
Czecbs will be chosen from all parts of
Bohemia as delegates to go to Constauco
and perform a soJemn religious duty before
the statue of the martyr.
Cable Notes.
An Englishman was shot dead at Genoa.
yesterday, by a sentry for not replying to a
challenge.
The French Chamber of Deputies has re
jected all the proposed modifications of M.
Meline's tariff' bill and passed the measure
Dy a vote of a43 to lwt
A tremendous hurricane, accompanied by
ihunder and lightning, swept over Hungary
yesterday. Many persons are reported to
have been killed by lightning.
MissFawcett. who carried off the hiehest
honors in mathematics at Cambridge Uni
versity, received 400 marks more than Ben-
neti, tho male senior wrangler.
The Russian government has ordered the
immediate addition to its military estab
lishment of a new corps of Hying cavalry
and a further augmentation of its field-bat
tery service.
The German Bundesrath has resolved to
erect a national equestrian statue of the
late Emperor William. The statue is to be
placed opposite tho imperial castle. Com
petition lor the design is to be open to all
sculptors.
! TYt A Q TV Ail a Itavlr A Vi5f ttVi ? Vi Vtmm
arrived at Queenstown from Fernaudiua,
reports that on May 24 sho saw a large
balloon lloatmg in the ocean. 1 he bark
attompted to reach the balloon to ascertain
if anybody was in the car, but darkness
set in and the balloon was not afterward
seen.
George Washington Bntterfield. an Amer
ican, has brought an action for libelagainst
the London Financial News, placing his
damages at 100,000. Tho alleged libel con
sisted of a etatement published by the
Financial News asserting that a mining
operation in the United States, in which
Mr. Butterffeld was interested, was an
impudent and n ild scheme.
REED) AS A REFORMER.
The Hucksters Must Vacate the Capitol Cor
ridors The Speaker Supreme.
"Washington Special.
Apparently Speaker Reed does not pro-
f oae to leave a single darling abuse in the
lou6e end of tho Capitol for the growlers
to growl at. Ho made a clean sweep of the
old mossback rules when, with a stroke of
his pen, he established practical prohibi
tion in tho restaurant, and now he has
issued an order that the pie, toy and news
paper stands that have been an eyesore for
long years, must take a walk within a few
days. The fiat has created dismay and de
spair. The Senate side of the Capitol has
been freo from these nuisances for a long
time, but tho freedom they havo had on the
House side has caused the corridors of
those precincts to bo overrun with all sorts
of booths, until the stranger might imagine
himself at a church fair,
Tho last stand to go from the Senate was
Senator David Davis's old pie-woman, who
for years furnished the great Illinois states-,
man with his favorite pie and luscious
glass of milk every day at the noon hour.
Some of tho Judge's enemies in the Senate
worked up a scheme to drive the old woman
so far away that her chief patron would
not be able to get baok the same day when
ho went for his luncheon. She was per
mitted to squat upon a claim in the lower
corridor near the dungeons of the House
wing. There she remains to this day, but
she will have to get a move on ber, as they
say down in Maine, before the close of the
week. Near her is another pie-and-milk
stand, a picture-stand and a cigar-stand.
In the corridor above the chief tigure is
"Clara Morris," a very old and half-dazed
French woman who has been there sinco
the building of the Capitol, and had the in
timate acquaintance of every public man
from the time of Jefferson, to accept her
own story.
This is the main corridor, and she tafces
up nearly half the space of the passage.
Yet almost across the corridor from her is a
ginger-bread stand, extensively patronized
by Congressmen who are accustomed to
that commodity in close association with
the festive watermelon at country fairs in
campaign time. Cigar-stands, newspaper
and candy-stands, to the number of half a
dozen, several telegraph offices and a de
crepit old woman with an apple basket,
make up an outfit of this character that
cannot be found in the.capitol building of
any other parliamentary body in the world.
Time and again efforts have been made to
abolish them, but the squatters have al
ways had enough friends to prevent their
eviction. .Now it is different. When
Speaker Reed leans np acainst anvthintr it
gives way at once. The telegraph and tele
phone stands will also shortly be moved to
a room, and so tho grand corridors left va
cant and majestic, without a feature more
trivial than the coming and going states
men. Always Smiling; Under Fals Colors.
Peorls Transcript.
Alleged "business men's meetings" to de
nounce the McKinley bill are what may be
called 'old gags." They were held in New
iork iust before the last national election.
and they were held in Pennsylvania just
before that State gave 80,000 Republican
majority. Styling - Democratic meetings
"business meetings" is just about as honest
as selling oleomargarine for pure bnttcr.
Highest of all in Leavening Tower.
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GENERAL LONG STREET.
He Tells How He Rccaine a Republican Ills
TaT.k with Hood.
Macon (Ga.) Teleg:-aph.
General Longstreet has exploded a story
which has been circulated for years as an
explanation of his connection with the Re
publican party. The common report has
been that Longstreet made up his mind on
this subject at a conference with several
other well-known confederate generals soon
after the close of the war; that they all
agreed to indorse the policy of reconstruc
tion; that Longstreet wrote a letter follow
ing out that idea, and that in consequence
of the abuse which this action brought upon
Longstreet the other confederate generals
who had agreed to go into the movement
with him "backed out" General Long
street was in St. Louis last Monday and a
reporter of the Globe-Democrat called his
attention to the story which has been fre
quently told in explanation of his alliance
with the Republican party. General Long
street said:
facts. Thero never was such a meeting held
in my office. It was just after the military
bill had passed, and friends of the South
felt that they were in a dark hour. The
New Orleans Times came out in a strong
editorial calling upon Hood, Wheeler,
Stewart, myself and others as Southern
leaders to join the paper in a plea for a re
construction of the Union. " e were asked
to declare in so many words that we ac
cepted the results, and were ready to aid in
the speedy restoration of the Union.
'General Hood met me, end we talked
about the editorial, lie said in effect tbat
it aimed at a condition that we all devout
ly hoped for, but ho added, If you declare
yourself on those lines the Southern press
and the Southern people will vilify and
abuse you. It may bo very patrictio and
all that, but it will be very foolish.' I re
plied Idon't exactly remember what were
the words, but it was to the effect that, if
it was patriotic, I was willing to be called a
fool. That afternoon I wrote my letter
on reconstruction to the Times. It
was first published in its columns,
and first read by General Hood when it ap-
F eared in print. However much General
food may have 6bared my sentiments, ho
never trusted himself to public expression
of them. . General Wheeler I did not con
sult in the matter. He, therefore, did not
interline and make marginal notes in my
letter. There never was an arrangement
under which my letter was to bo followed.
The soldiers named were all gentlemen, and
had they made any snch an agreement they
would have carried it out If I did tread
the wine press alone, I did so on my own
motion."
This statement of General Longtreet will
be accented as final. It destroys a legend
which has beon repeated for years, and
which many have believed. The strangest
thing about the whole matter is that Gen.
Longstreet did not long ago deny a
story which did somo of the most distin
guished of his associates in the confeder
ate army grave Injustice. It is well that
the truth has come out at last.
BISHOP TAYLOR'S MISSIONS.
His African Work Not a Success Ills Use
fulness Seriously Impaired.
Boma (Conge) Letter In New YorK Tribune.
I am informed, upon credible authority.
that 58 per cent, of tho Taylor missionaries
have retired from their fields of labor with
in a year. This loss is as follows: Sick
ness, death, huneer. incompetency. It is
said that Bishop Taylor placos one or two
missionaries on a station with one years
supuiies of a very doubtful character. He
says to these people: "After one year this
station must be self-dupporting at any
rate, yon must nol look to me for further
assistance!" During the first year it is im
possible for these missionaries to become
. . -m J a Jl 11
seiT'SUSiainmg. even 11 mey uevoica au
their time and strength to physical labor.
The hrst thing they must do is to learn
the native language in order to
put themselves upon pleasant terms
with the people they have come to
teach. Lot, according to the Bishop's plan.
the hrst year upon the held must be occu
pied bv a fierce and exhausting struggle to
keep from starving during the second year.
luciD ia una iuduuio ui uuiibuvui, nut iu
sav inhumanity, of this policy. Two mis
sionaries from the United States, husband
and wife, had passed their first year at
their station. Ihe food was exhausted.
and they applied to the Bishop for food or
transportation back to America, but they
received no food and no transportation.
Finally the woman fell into a burn
ing and consuming fever, and her
husband, in despair, went on board
the Cameroon, aud begged Captain
Turnbull to take them to Ln eland, ex-
nlaiuinc that the Bishop had refused
him both aid and transportation, adding
that he was without money and his wife
was dying. The captain carried the sick
woman to his ship in his arms, and con
veyed them to England, whence they
begged their passage to America.
1 visited one of the Bishop's missions
near Banana aboutthree weeks ago. It was
a difficult canoe trip up a filthy little
creek with a swift current. It is situated
in the bush three hours from Banana. At
this station I found one lonely white
woman, just recovering from a feverof two
weeks' duration, during which time she
was .entirely without medicine, or
food, or attendance. I nsked Miss
Kildare if she wero not lonely, and
she said she was perfectly happy; and that
she was delighted to be by herself. She is
of Irish extraction, fifty-hve rears of age.
and had taught among tho freedmen in the
Southern United States. She was pleasant
and fervent in her conversation, as is the
manner of most Methodists. Her house
stood upon high pillars, was of galvanized
iron, and contained two rooms. She had
no kitchen, and did no cooking. Like
most of the Taylor missionaries, she trades
some with the natives.
I asked her if she was not afraid of being
molested, and she told me that she -had a
revolver which she occasionally dis
charged to intimidate the natives. Her
house stands in tho center of a largo
lot surrounded by a very ihigh pole fence.
On one 6ide of her is a small native village.
on the other side reside a few people from
Liberia, whom the Congo State brought
here because their ancestors had been stolon
from the Congo a century ago. These peo
ple are not on friendly terms, the natives
do not like the Siberians, and 1 suspect
there are ample reasons for this dislike.
The Liberian is not a harmonious element
in Africa. Well, if Miss Kildare teaches
the children of one faction, the other fac
tion refuse to send their children or to
trade with her; and thus she finds herself
between two hres. Lven if all were har
monious this lonely woman is not equal to
the work to be done upon this held, and I
regard this mission as ntterly worthless.
It fact, it is a scandal to leave this woman
in such isolation. She seems to be a
thoroughly good and earnest woman, but
talents of a high order are required for such
nelds already ripe for the harvest.
Bishop Taylor himself seems to be an ex
cellent man. but a poor missionary bishon.
He has a habit of refusing hospitality at
night, preferring to sleep upon the ground
with a stone pillow, in imitation of Jacob
of the Old' Testament. I believe that this
young man slept out upon the ground be
cause thero was no shelter for him. More
over, he was a fugitive from the iust auger
01 an injured uroiuer. ina greatest 01
missionary bishops, SL Paul, always ac
cented hosnitalitv. and when ho remained
in a place for a long time lived in his own
hired house. Bishop Taylor is suffering
now from bronchitis, because he chooses to
expose himself by sleeping upon the ground
in the heavy and poibonous air of this wild
country. -Thus his usefulness is impaired
and his life endangered. Some of his
brethren are frequently sick by imitating
his dangerous example.
. Uuiine&s Before Politics.
Brooklyn Eagle (Dtm.)
President Harrison has made an excel
lent appointment to the postmnfttership of
Brooklyn. The selection of Colonel An
drew 1). Baird, although a purnns?, ought
to be reassuring to every ono who desires
U. S. Go7't Report, Aug. 17, x88o.
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7b ft 77 B.Pennevlvanlasfc
an efficient administration of our postal
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master Hendrix is of consennence to the
public not so much on tho political as the
business side.
The Irrepressible Springer. .
Plttsbnrg Chronicle.
Springer, the agile, wa with other gen
tlemen at the Speaker's desk to be recorded
as -wishing to make a speech on the silver
bill, and thinking that the Speakez meant
to ignore him, inquired in an irritated tone:
Have voh put me doxrn yt, Mr. Speaker!"
"I bavo put yoa down moro than once, Mr.
Springer," replied the Speaker, in his
drawling way, "but the trouble is 1 can't
keep you down."
Cleveland's rresbyterlanlsixu
Buffalo Commercial.
Mr. Cleveland has worked his birthright
Calvanisra prettv hard since he became
President; but Mr. Qnilp says that tho
principal, if not only, plank in the West
minister Confession that he has really
'clung to, with unabated faith and stead
fastness," is the doctrino of election.
The Controversy In Wisconsin.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
According to Baron Cotzhausen, Governor
Hoard is bent on having the little German
bov learn Knffliah. vn if it Iia nt thn
risk of losing his God." Are we to under
stand that in Mr. uotzhansen'a opinion uod
doesn't understand English?
Safely Republican."
New York Evening Post (Dem.)
On national issues Oregon appears to be
afely Republican, tho growth of population-
dnring tho past tun years having
helped that party, which in 16S0 gave Gar
field only 704 more votes than Hancock re
ceived. - '
Stanley's OrdeaL
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Now that the British matrons are begin
ning to kiss Mr. Stanley when he appears
in publio, tho great explorer will probably
wish he had gone back with Kmin.
Send-Oa" Was 3Ieant.
Boston Transcript.
"His great senl-along by Tacoma" is tho
way an English paper speaks of Mr. Train's
send-on" by tho booming Western town,
"Send-along" is not bad.
Those Denied City Wajs.
Puck.
Mrs. Tredigee (as the sugar comes along)
Use the tongs, cousin.
Mr. Honks.-Why, 't ain't hot, is it!
The Cleveland Idea.
Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Cleveland's idea seems to be that il
is better to write than be President
Accused of Burglary.
William M. Aiken was arrested early this)
morning by Sergeant Joyce, patrolman
Kaftery- and depot policeman Hagerdorn
on a charge of burglary. He is a young man
and has not loner been ouHf of tho
Itcfonn School. He is thought to be the
thief who has been committing the varions
robberies in Haughville. He was intend
ing to take tjie train for Chicago, when ar
rested, having probably learned of a
warrant being out charging him with,
obtaining money under false pretenses.
Tho house of James Uedding w as robbed
recently of a gold watch worth $s" and 13
in money, and evidence points to Aiken as
tho guilty ono. A number of keys were
found in his pockets. Aiken came origin
ally from Evansville.
Flight y llobbery.
Mrs. Lynn Joyce, living at room No. 10,
Smith Block, Virginia avenue, reported last
night that a young man, apparently abont
eighteen years old, had attacked her as
she was walking on Albania street,
between tho Big Four yards and
South street, and had snatched her
pocket-book containing $10 cash and sv
note for $100. The robber also made un un
successful attempt to secure her watch.
He struck her a severe blow in the face in
tho attempt. She was not able to rccoaiia
her anaiUW
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